TCM Schedule for Thurs, Nov 21, 2024 - Winter Tales/Powell & Pressburger, Pt 3
The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Their collaborations—24 films between 1939 and 1972—were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the script written by both Pressburger and Powell. Powell did most of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing, especially the way the music was used.
Unusually, the pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films. The best-known of these are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
In 1981, Powell and Pressburger were recognized for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger
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Alternate synopses, full cast, and trivia for all films available at https://www.imdb.com
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6:00 AM | The Fox (1967)
A sexy male drifter upsets the relationship between two female farmers.
Dir: Mark Rydell | Cast: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood
8:00 AM | The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Spoof on vampire lore centers around a pair of hunters roaming the Slovenian countryside to catch the elusive creatures.
Dir: Roman Polanski | Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
10:00 AM | Just the Way You Are (1984)
A musician thinks people treat her differently because of her disability, so she goes to a ski resort with her leg in a cast to test this theory.
Dir: Edouard Molinaro | Cast: Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter
11:45 AM | Snowed Under (1936)
A playwright in search of solitude is besieged by three women.
Dir: Raymond Enright | Cast: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell
1:00 PM | Idiot's Delight (1939)
A hoofer and a fake Russian countess are caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of World War II.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold
3:00 PM | The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
An ice-skating team breaks up when both partners fall for the same girl.
Dir: Reinhold Schunzel | Cast: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres
4:30 PM | Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Dir: George Cukor | Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
6:15 PM | The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell | Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
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8:00 PM | I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
9:45 PM | Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar
11:30 PM | Hour of Glory (1949)
During World War II, a bomb disposal officer fights his addictions to alcohol and pain pills. Also known as 'The Small Back Room'.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Jack Hawkins, David Farr
1:30 AM | The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
A famous writer broods over his three lost loves.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina
4:00 AM | The Lion Has Wings (1939)
British people of every class band together to repel the German Blitz.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez
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5:30 AM | MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)
Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt."
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn